Final / OT/Tue Mar 4, 2025/Centre Bell, Montreal/2024-25 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdOTT
01203
30014

02/Scoring summary

7 goals

1st

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
09:42MTLCole Caufield (30)Nick Suzuki, Lane Hutson01
11:41MTLNick Suzuki (19)Mike Matheson02
13:42MTLJuraj Slafkovský (11)Nick Suzuki, Lane Hutson03

2nd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
18:07BUFAlex Tuch (23)Dylan Cozens, NHL 847850213

3rd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
03:24BUFTage Thompson (29)JJ Peterka, Jacob Bryson23
18:59BUFRasmus Dahlin (10)JJ Peterka, Jiri Kulich33

OT

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
01:21MTLMike Matheson (5)Juraj Slafkovský, Nick Suzuki34

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
MTL
3
Goals
4
36
Shots on goal
20
25
Missed shots
12
10
Blocked shots
24
87
Shot attempts
43
37
Hits
20
25
Faceoffs won of 62
37
40.3%
Faceoff win %
59.7%
12
Giveaways
14
4
Takeaways
5
6
Penalties
5
12
Penalty minutes
10
4
Power plays
5

Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.

Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.


04/Buffalo Sabres

Away · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
JJ PeterkaR022+1260020:22
Rasmus DahlinD101+2664125:34
Alex TuchR101+104012-121:42
Tage ThompsonC101+105003-518:36
Dylan CozensC011024608-717:19
Jacob BrysonD011+1000016:11
NHL 8478502011022
Jiri KulichC0110115-8
Bowen ByramD000+2211024:59
Owen PowerD000-1021321:10
Connor CliftonD0000006014:45
Jack QuinnR000-1031114:16
Ryan McLeodC000000106-813:08
Beck MalenstynL000000500-212:04
Zach BensonL0000021011:31
Peyton KrebsC000000300-411:14
Sam LaffertyC000003301-29:46
NHL 8478413000021
Skaters369363710

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 847350320164.800

One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.


05/Montréal Canadiens

Home · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Nick SuzukiC134-104108-1020:11
Mike MathesonD1120011428:22
Lane HutsonD022012
Juraj SlafkovskýL112340
Cole CaufieldR101-1030217:44
Alexandre CarrierD000-2220520:51
Joel ArmiaR000-1003018:51
Christian DvorakC0000210010-615:48
Josh AndersonR000000101-015:28
Jayden StrubleD0000202315:18
Patrik LaineR000001000-213:03
Brendan GallagherR0000000012:56
NHL 8475233000011
Jake EvansC00002312-4
Alex NewhookC0002015-3
Emil HeinemanL000011
Arber XhekajD000321
NHL 84834240000111-0
Skaters4711202024

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Sam Montembeault36333.917

One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.


06/Penalties

11 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st01:57BUFDylan CozensRoughing2Brendan Gallagher
1st08:22BUFBowen ByramSlashing2Jake Evans
1st10:03MTLChristian DvorakRoughing2JJ Peterka
1st10:03MTLAlexandre CarrierRoughing2Rasmus Dahlin
1st10:03BUFRasmus DahlinRoughing2Alexandre Carrier
1st12:37BUFRasmus DahlinInterference2Jake Evans
1st14:24BUFJJ PeterkaTripping2Alexandre Carrier
2nd04:10MTLAlex NewhookGoaltender interference2NHL 8473503
2nd14:32MTLJayden StrubleInterference2Beck Malenstyn
3rd09:38MTLAlex NewhookTripping2Connor Clifton
3rd14:42BUFRasmus DahlinInterference2Mike Matheson

07/Game

Date
Tue Mar 4, 2025
Venue
Centre Bell, Montreal
Season
2024-25
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final / OT
NHL game id
2024020968

Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are on file for 25 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 36 players for this game, where a club normally dresses twenty and a full game is forty. The names it leaves out cannot be recovered from it, and this page does not invent them. 2 goaltenders are missing from that list, and their lines are built from the play-by-play instead: every shot and every goal names the goaltender who faced it, so shots against, saves and goals against are counted the same way the skater columns are. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus stay blank for them, because only the box score carries those. 5 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.